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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Cogn. 2018 May 14;1(1):25. doi: 10.5334/joc.28

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Illustration of a top-down perceptual phenomenon that does not seem voluntary or intentional (adapted from Selfridge, 1955). The “a” in “cat” and the “h” in the “the” have the same letter shape. However, people effortlessly see the words “CAT” and “THE” rather than “CHT” and “TAE”.